Local History Month - Lost and Found, the McLaren diaries of Thorpe Thewles

In 2010, while looking for bargains at a car boot sale in Hull, Brian Powdrell purchased a set of three neatly handwritten antique diaries. The stall holder believed that the diaries had been retrieved from a waste skip that had been filled as part of a house clearance in Harrogate. The diaries were written by a teenage boy, David McLaren, who lived at Manor Farm, Thorpe Thewles. David was the oldest son of tenant farmers in the village. At the time of writing his diaries David was a senior pupil at Stockton Grammar School. In October 1913, he took up a scholarship to study Agriculture at Armstrong College, Newcastle. With the assistance of Lonely Tower Film and Media, community volunteers and subject matter experts TTHG has produced an 83-minute documentary about the discovery of the diaries, their contents and the life and times of their writer.

2.30pm - 4.15pm

£3 (Booking required)

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